the mountain goddess, if she still is there,

will be startled to find her world so changed."

Between 1949 and 1953 Mao Zedong and the communist party transformed China,

building a new society in place of the old.

Chairman Mao Zedong and the Communist party announced to the Chinese people

on October 1st 1949, that China was now under communist rule and would hence

forward be known as the Peoples Republic of China. This historic

announcement took place at the Gates of Heavenly Peace in Beijing China.

(Brooman, 1988, pg 28) Thus beginning the transformation of the old China

into the new. "The People's Republic of China strives for independence,

democracy, peace, unity, prosperity and the strength of China. " -Mao

To achieve this transformation Mao Zedong had extensive plans and reforms to

implement as well as the people of China's full support.

China at this current time lay in ruins: 50 years of disunity, civil war and

invasion had taken its toll both physically and emotionally. Mao Zedong had

to first secure his gains from the re

Heavy Industry received the greatest share of raw materials and was strongly

Mao Zedong and the Communist party saw industrialization as the way to

the Communist party was to establish a socialist industrial economy, which

(approx. 40% of all cultivated land) was taken from landlords and given to

Government, with Mao Zedong becoming chairman and head of state, and Zhou

forced out to fight. China's economy was in drastic need of stabilisation.

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